Okay, you're going to have to explain to me why imagining that there's a biological reason for rape culture strikes you as unfeminist, admittedly I don't spend much time studying feminist culture but I'm fairly sure that the idea 'all men are rapists' has a fairly solid track-record in feminist writing/thought (including a subsequent but unconvincing distancing phase).
I also can't see why writing for men is any different from writing for any other niche market/marketing niche. Thrillers tend to be aimed at a male audience. But then I'm well aware that I'm not writing for the best-seller audience (and there's some evidence that men like my writing more than women do) -- I'm certainly not particularly keen on writing for the predominantly female audience who read Twilight. Is it unfeminist to know to whom your writing style appeals?
Things is, one of the main reasons I write SFF is because I can recontextualise a difficult and emotive subject and then ask questions like 'what if?' -- did you ever read the initial chapters of 'Made'? Thematically it gets involved with war, war crimes, rape and slavery. I know some people believe they already know the all the answers to these kinds of subjects, and that their moral superiority is unquestionable -- but so did a lot of Romans.
(How many books written 'positively' do I have to get published before I can complain when someone makes an irrational personal attack? And for how long do I have to buy into whatever dichotemous definitions of positive and negative are being proposed before I can simply write truthfully? And, in boring repetition, why do these guys get to tell me what/how I should write about women and what audience I should be writing for?)
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Date: 2012-04-29 02:55 am (UTC)I also can't see why writing for men is any different from writing for any other niche market/marketing niche. Thrillers tend to be aimed at a male audience. But then I'm well aware that I'm not writing for the best-seller audience (and there's some evidence that men like my writing more than women do) -- I'm certainly not particularly keen on writing for the predominantly female audience who read Twilight. Is it unfeminist to know to whom your writing style appeals?
Things is, one of the main reasons I write SFF is because I can recontextualise a difficult and emotive subject and then ask questions like 'what if?' -- did you ever read the initial chapters of 'Made'? Thematically it gets involved with war, war crimes, rape and slavery. I know some people believe they already know the all the answers to these kinds of subjects, and that their moral superiority is unquestionable -- but so did a lot of Romans.
(How many books written 'positively' do I have to get published before I can complain when someone makes an irrational personal attack? And for how long do I have to buy into whatever dichotemous definitions of positive and negative are being proposed before I can simply write truthfully? And, in boring repetition, why do these guys get to tell me what/how I should write about women and what audience I should be writing for?)